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Executive Mansion, June 5, 1861 



Private . 

Lieutenant General Scott, 

My dear Sir: 

Doubtless you begin to understand how disagreeable it 
is for me to do a thing arbitrarily, when it is unsatisfactory to 
others associated with me. 

I very much wish to appoint Colonel Meigs Quarter-master 
General, and yet General Cameron does not quite consent. I have 
come to know Colonel Meigs quite well for a short acquaintance, 
and so far as I am capable of judging, I do not know one who 
combines the qualities of masculine intellect, learning and 
experience of the right sort, and physical power of labor and 
endurance, so well as he. 

I know he has great confidence in you, always sustaining so 
far as I have observed your opinion against any differing ones. 

You will lay me under one more obligation if you can and will 
use your influence to remove General Cameron's objections. I 
scarcely need tell you I have nothing personal in this, having never 
seen or heard of Colonel Meigs, until about the end of last March. 

Your obedient servant, 

A. LINCOLN. 



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